Gary Chalk is an illustrator and model-maker who is perhaps best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf (gamebooks)

Lone Wolf is a series of 28 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated by Gary Chalk. The series began publishing in July 1984 and sold more than 10.2 million copies worldwide....

series of gamebooks written by Joe Dever

Joe Dever

Joe Dever is an award-winning British fantasy author and game designer. Originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982....

. He is also illustrating with original artworks the upcoming French edition of Mongoose Publishing

Mongoose Publishing

Mongoose Publishing is a prolific British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, actively publishing material since 2001...

’s Lone Wolf RPG

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

, due to be released in late 2006

2006 in literature

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/early 2007

2007 in literature

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Born in 1952, Gary grew up in rural Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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, England

England

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. He started playing wargames

Wargaming

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 at the age of 15. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in design, and spent time as a teacher of art and design before going freelance.

In addition to Lone Wolf, Gary has been involved in the artwork for a number of other notable games and books. These include the board game Talisman

Talisman (board game)

Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is a fantasy themed adventure board game for two to six players, originally designed and produced by Games Workshop and now published by Fantasy Flight Games. The game was first released in 1983 and has gone through several revisions...

 and the first six volumes of the Redwall

Redwall

Redwall, by Brian Jacques, is a series of fantasy novels. It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, the name of the Abbey featured in the book, and the name of an animated TV series based on three of the novels , which first aired in 1999...

 series of children's books. He has also drawn maps for the entire selection of Warriors (novel series) books by Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter is a pseudonym used by the authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland, along with editor Victoria Holmes. Under this pen name, they have written two series of books. They are best known for the Warriors series, but the authors have also created another similar series called...

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As of 2009-2010, Gary Chalk is the illustrator for Allan Frewin Jones' Sundered Lands books.

Other games

• Battlecars
  Battlecars
  Battlecars is a simple wargame based upon the Mad Max genre of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs. It was first published by Games Workshop in the early 1980s and the game designers were Gary Chalk and Ian Livingstone...
  
   and the expansion Battlebikes
• Cry Havoc
• Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
  Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (board game)
  Curse of the Mummy's Tomb was a boardgame for 1-4 players, published by Games Workshop and designed by Stephen Hand. It featured a three dimensional board, representing an Egyptian pyramid, with two consecutively smaller playing areas above the bottom board....
  
  
• Fantasy Warlord
  Fantasy Warlord
  Fantasy Warlord is a fantasy miniatures game released in 1990 by Folio Works. It was written by Ian Bailey and Gary Chalk who also did the illustrations....
  
  
• Cadwallon
  Cadwallon
  Cadwallon is a Welsh name, derived from an earlier Old Welsh version of the same name spelled Caswallawn. The name honours Cassivelaunus who was the pre-Roman king of the British Catuvellauni tribe who successfully resisted the Romans in 55 BC....
  
  
• Devil Kings
  Devil Kings
  Devil Kings, known in Japan as Sengoku Basara , is a 2005 video game for PlayStation 2, developed and released by Capcom...
  
  
• HeroQuest (Cards and Rulebook)